A Moment Aside --- 22 June 2021
Don’t worry about the
names of the novelists in this story. What is important is the concept of “enough.”
For many, too much is never enough. Personally I find that sad. It’s an
attitude and a mind-set that does not permit a person to be satisfied.
How much money does a
person need? How many cars or boats or planes or houses? How much clothing?
Many people have nowhere near enough and they are hungry, cold, and lost. Many
people like that are among us and along-side us.
God gives and what God
gives can (and should) be shared. Gratitude is the proper response to having “enough”
even if it would not satisfy the person next to us. Maybe the idea of gratitude
is the antidote to a life of grasping and constant search for more.
Will we ever get beyond
the constant desire for more? I don’t know; I haven’t gotten that far myself.
There does come a point when we realize that we can’t have more or there is no “more”
to be had. That often comes at the end of our life and accompanied by that
demon, Regret.
If we can short-circuit
that path, we might be better off. It would be good if we could say along with
Joseph Heller:
“Yes, but I
have something he will never have … enough.”
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